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[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it’s also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

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An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

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Even those who, like me, believe that Roe v. Wade and the decisions elaborating on reproductive rights were constitutionally correct must recognize that, for many on the right, the sudden and relatively sloppily reasoned character of the abortion rulings… did real damage to the Court’s reputation as a relatively neutral arbiter of legal disputes.

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It bothers me that the executive branch is taking the amazing position that just on the president’s say-so, any American citizen can be picked up, not just in Afghanistan, but at O’Hare Airport or on the streets of any city in this country, and locked up without access to a lawyer or court just because the government says he’s connected somehow with the Taliban or Al Qaeda. That’s not the American way. It’s not the constitutional way.

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Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

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One of the most extraordinary examples in recent decades [of unitary visions of constitutional enterprise] is found in a book called “Takings”… Epstein makes an extremely clever but stunningly reductionist argument that the whole Constitution is really designed to protect private property… Can a constitution reflecting as diverse an array of visions and aspirations as ours really be reducible to such as sadly single-minded vision as that?

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The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

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The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I’m not saying we’re there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.

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The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That’s what the Supreme Court said.

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The whole country needs to get to the bottom of what really happened with the Russian collusion allegations. But in the meantime, we have a president Donald Trump who himself says trust me. He does not accept the boundaries of law. He basically says that if anybody gets too close for comfort, I’m going to get rid of them. And as long as that’s in place, we cannot afford as a country to put our fate in the hands of someone so whimsical and so unpredictable.

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[The Bill of Rights is] designed to protect individuals and minorities against the tyranny of the majority, but it’s also designed to protect the people against bureaucracy, against the government.

An excess of law inescapably weakens the rule of law.

Of course the president Donald Trump said he wants to get to the truth. He always says that. But I think we all know that those words do not speak as loudly as his actions.

The federal government may not disarm individual citizens without some unusually strong justification.

The only way the avoid a constitution crisis, and I’m not saying we’re there yet, is to reassure the public that the person leading the government is someone who has loyalties other than to himself, not loyalties to the foreign governments that helped him financially.

The Second Amendment does protect the right to people to possess weapons for self-defense in the home. That’s what the Supreme Court said.

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